I feed a raw diet to my boxer called BARF. It stands for bones and raw foods. I used to work at an animal hospital as a lad tech ( the person who comes into the room to draw blood and do x-rays, and run lab tests) and the vet that I worked for was very much into raw diets. My boxer had terrible allergies for the first year and a half that I had him. He had itchy skin, ears, and feet. I had put him on several meds, tried switching his food to fish and potatoes, but he was still a little itchy. He has been on a raw diet for 4.5 years and is doing great. I believe in strongly a natural diet. Just from working in an vet lab I can tell you that the number of diseases in animal keeps getting higher and I don't think that pets have evolved that much, I think that diet plays a big factor in health. A lot of dogs have allergies to corn and wheat. Check the ingredients of pet foods, most have corn or wheat listed in the first couple of ingredients. I have found that even some presciption allergy food use beef that has been corn fed, so your dog is still getting corn. Most raw foods free feed, meaning that the beef used for foods are grass grazed rather than corn fed. I can go on about this for ever, but I am tired.
have a good night,
Alice |